Question 190
A fictional service-provider team at Winterfield Utilities is reviewing an intercity fiber refresh. The finding is: Two exit links reach the same prefix, but the AS prefers the wrong outbound egress because import policy sets local preference improperly. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?
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Correct Answer
Verify best paths on multiple iBGP speakers after local-preference policy revisions. This monitors the behavior that failed at Winterfield Utilities; the most useful acceptance signal is that internal BGP best paths prefer the approved egress due to the intended local-preference values.
Incorrect Answers
Exercise VRRP failover and confirm virtual gateway reachability under device and link failure. That ongoing check is for VRRP virtual gateway failover; it would not reliably detect recurrence of BGP local preference. LOCAL_PREF is an intradomain BGP path attribute that normally influences preferred outbound exit for routes inside the AS.
Test MED behavior in realistic same-neighbor-AS scenarios and monitor actual received path attributes. The monitored boundary differs from BGP local preference, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. LOCAL_PREF is an intradomain BGP path attribute that normally influences preferred outbound exit for routes inside the AS.
The control protects EBGP multihop reachability. It does not establish the ongoing BGP local preference behavior required in this network. LOCAL_PREF is an intradomain BGP path attribute that normally influences preferred outbound exit for routes inside the AS.